Ha Vy Hotel, HCMC, Day 3

We both wake up with hangovers (as expected) bur drag ourselves our of bed ready to do something.
We start the day in search of a post office to send the shoes back to England. After following dodgy directions for an hour we get to our destination, only to find out it's closed. We end up back at the market and decided to now aim for the famous central post office.
After eating it takes around half an hour to reach the next stop. The post office looks great, as if you've moved back in time. We manage to get the parcel sent, after someone tells off a local for pushing on front of us, which feels good. He view of the Notre Dame cathedral is also pretty good from directly outside. To send a parcel from here is definitely an experience in itself.
After that we headed to the botanical gardens and zoo. The first animals we saw were the giraffes, which we got to feed. It was great fun to give them small bits of carrot and made the admission fee immediately worth it. After that though it goes downhill. The animals are mostly held in small cages without the right habitat they need (otters without water etc) so it all seems a bit sad. Some cages are good, but all in all it gets a bit depressing at times.
So we leave the zoo and enter the history museum that stands looking very pretty at the zoo gates. We don't have long as it's nearly closing Time, but we soon work our way around. It's better then expected, with some great Cham sculptures on show and some great information about the history of Vietnam. There is also a mummified body on display which is pretty freaky.
So after all that walking we are ready for an easy uber home. We get picked up, but after twenty minutes of riding are taken a completely different hotel (albeit with a very similar name). We sit in the back of the car offering to pay and get a new taxi but the driver doesn't understand a word. After fifteen minutes of sitting we set off again, this time in the right direction. We make it back after an hour, and the driver says it was ubers fault and not ours, so doesn't charge us anymore money. It was in the end a good experience, as witnessing the roundabouts at rush hour is something I won't forget in a while. How there isn't more accidents on these roads is beyond me.
So a long day all in all, but a good one, and now it's time for a quiet night. Who said hangovers spoilt your day, ey?Baca lagi